STEPHENSON, Andrew M(ichael)

(1946-)

   Venezuelan-born UK writer, electronics design engineer and, as Ames, a magazine and book illustrator. He began publishing sf with "Holding Action" for ASF in 1971, but then published only 1 more story before his first novel, Nightwatch (1977), in which fortifications in space are constructed against an assumed alien INVASION which proves to be a friendly contact. The Wall of Years (1979; rev 1980 US), more typically of a UK writer, describes the destruction of spacetime through interdimensional warfare, and an attempt to set things right again in a lovingly depicted Dark Ages.

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   See also: HISTORY IN SF.